{"id":113881,"date":"2025-11-02T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113881\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:27:08","slug":"joe-schmidt-pinpoints-key-difference-in-englands-win-over-wallabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113881\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Schmidt pinpoints key \u2018difference\u2019 in England\u2019s win over Wallabies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt believes England\u2019s bench changed the game in Saturday\u2019s 25-7 Autumn Nations Series<\/a> defeat, as the hosts built on a tight half-time lead with 15 unanswered points during a clinical second term.<\/p>\n

After last weekend\u2019s four-point win over Eddie Jones\u2019 Japan<\/a> in Tokyo, the Wallabies looked to make it two from two in their 2025 Spring Tour \u2013 hoping to repeat their heroics from 12 months earlier, having beaten England<\/a> in an all-time thriller at Twickenham\u2019s Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n

England fly-half George Ford<\/a> broke the deadlock in the 19th minute with a successful shot at the uprights, before the home side extended their lead to 10 in a blink. Ben Earl<\/a> crossed for the first try of the match midway through the half, with Ford adding the extras off the kicking tee.<\/p>\n

Wallabies winger Harry Potter<\/a> made it a one-score game with a length-of-the-field intercept try deep into the half, with pivot Tane Edmed<\/a> converting the long-range effort to make it 10-7 at the break, but the visitors wouldn\u2019t score any other points.<\/p>\n

It was one-way traffic during the second 40, with replacements Henry Pollock<\/a> and Luke Cowan-Dickie<\/a> among the try-scorers, along with Alex Mitchell. England had 45 per cent of possession but made the most of their opportunities on a \u201cvery tough\u201d night for the Australians.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few lessons out there for sure,\u201d Schmidt said post-game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re right in the game at 10-7, at half-time, and even leading into half-time, we had a little bit of momentum, and after half-time had a couple of 22 entries, one where we got really good momentum.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt that we\u2019re right in it but I did think that the bench made a difference from England. They really did step up the level of intensity and the physical combat that they brought. Until that time, I thought the game was really well balanced.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a couple of kicks there were a couple of tries but the likes of Harry Potter<\/a>, Andrew Kellaway<\/a>, there was some really good work from our players in the air. I think it\u2019s something that everyone has to just keep working on because they were the two entry points for England into the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had an early one where when Harry Potter tried to throw a ball over to Andrew Kellaway<\/a> on an overlap and it got intercepted, but then Harry certainly made up for that from his length of the field effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve obviously got to have a bit of a look at some of our maul defence, but we got some really good pressure on their lineout. We stole a few of their lineouts, got good pressure on their lineout, but once they started to get a flow of possession from touch, it did make it very tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the 2027 Men\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> Draw one month away, the Wallabies will be desperate to bounce back, as they look to rise up the world rankings into the top six. If they can move up one position, they\u2019ll be part of the top band of teams for the pool draw.<\/p>\n

Australia<\/a> face Italy<\/a> up next. These two teams haven\u2019t met in three years, with the Azzurri claiming a famous 28-27 win over Dave Rennie\u2019s Wallabies at Stadio Artemio Franchi during the Autumn Internationals<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

The Wallabies will also take on Ireland<\/a> and France<\/a> during their End of Year Tour. Wallabies captain Harry Wilson<\/a> insists the team must be better when they take on Italy next week, echoing Schmidt\u2019s thoughts on the England defeat<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was obviously really disappointing from us tonight but I guess the beauty of a five-game tour, we do have next week,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know the group\u2019s going to be really motivated to improve because we\u2019ve got to be a hell of a lot better than what we were tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very disappointed change room at the moment but I know once we hit the ground in Italy, we\u2019ll be very motivated for what will be a very tough Test match.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt believes England\u2019s bench changed the game in Saturday\u2019s 25-7 Autumn Nations Series defeat, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-113881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}